Please feel free to add! This is one of mine:
Did you know when you are using the word “its” as a possessive - there is no apostrophe?
He knew of its importance.
Its days were numbered.
Its butt is huge.
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I knew this once and forgot it.
I’ll try to remember but I can’t promise anything. Most likely I’ll forget again. Grammer and it’s details seem insignificant to me. I’m sorry.
I thought about it and you are probably right.
prepositions are bad things to end sentences with…
-Imp
lol
Whaa?
So, is it bad and badly? To use only feel bad and proscribe feel badly, or to follow some other line—you will find some Standard users who agree with you and others who do not. Some differentiate their choices on the basis of part of speech and conclude that since feel is a linking verb that takes a predicate adjective, bad, not badly, is called for, regardless of whether the cause is poor health or guilt feelings. Others point out that bad is a flat adverb and that therefore the -ly adverb form is wholly unnecessary and overcorrective. Still others say that badly goes with emotion, bad with physical health; and the converse is also occasionally argued too. Still others insist that the best thing to do is avoid badly entirely.
Do you feel bad or badly? You don’t have to answer, Detrop, because you find it insignificant. I want to find it insignificant, but I can’t. It drives me mad.
(Could that be that my bitchy mum had her Masters in English Lit from Mt. Holyoke and corrected my diary that she wasn’t supposed to read? Yea that’s it.)
Particularly common in England is to use ‘of’ instead of ‘have’, for example:
‘He could of told me that he was going to be late.’
Nope, no pet peeves, had one once it tokk up too much time too care for its furry little slef. i find that having one makes on susceptiple to harsher critiques and that should you ventalate you peeves someone willll throw it up in your face that you are a hipocrat. Noone that is average can perfect grammer or spelling we all screw up. i prefer not pointing it out unless it is frigkin funny as hell. Cuz i jest no that i will be caught. 
Cast not the first stone lest you be stoned. (cuz then you got a goodly excuses)
One thing I hated about writing for a publication is that you are going to screw up one way or the other. The flip side of that is that most people these days simply don’t care anymore. I think correcting another person is the biggest faux pas of all, btw.
Imp,
I think the preposition thing has become passe. Maybe Tab can answer that since he is in the grammar biz. I heard it was somewhat acceptable - “somewhat” being the operative word.
Here’s a subtle one from written English, often perpetrated by non-native speakers;
“I’m on the phone” → "am on the phone.
Here’s my theory about it: The word “I” is phonetically a dipthong, /aI/, and what tends to happen in colloquial speech is that it collapses into a single vowel, /a/, leaving “a” (eg, “no, a don’t want one”). Now, in some languages, when the verb conjugates are varied, you can omit pronouns, because you know the person and number from the verb alone (eg, in Spanish, “it is hot” becomes just “is hot”, because “is” is only used in the third-person singular). What happens is that these foreigners hear things like “I’m busy” pronounced “a’m busy”, and wrongly deduce that we’ve omitted the pronoun because “am” is only used for the first-person singular.
In speech, you can away with this, but in writing it looks bad. I hate the fact that it’s too trivial to pull people up on, but too annoying to ignore.
(Language fascism from me? So what 
)
it has yet to become acceptable to particular writers. and here’s the kicker-
what kind of web site is this? philosophy deals with very specific rules about language; and “philosophers” who don’t understand how to clairify and speak precisely aren’t convincing… even philosophers who invent their own punctuation systems can be misinterpreted… punctuation and capitalization could be argued to be passe as well (especially on an informal website); however, when writing to be published (something that “professional” philosophers must do) the Engrish must be empickable… understanding the difference can be half the battle…
-Imp
Imp,
I hope you were being funny. Impeccable? But empickable sure looks right when talking about CYA philosophy.
Grammar is important as presentation, not for anything else. Some grammatical errors are allowed, but incorrect speeling and incomprehensible grammer makes (make’s = does make) the most brilliant thinker appear both uneducated and/or uneducable, and therefore dismissable.
I have a plethora of grammatical and spelling peeves … but due to the fact that I type at a rate beyond my ability to read correctly, often pass over mistakes …
[size=200]Viva la Edit Buttione`!!![/size]
Imp and tentative both have valid points, although they should be ignored due to their age, which increases the likelihood they have already forgotten what they posted.
Posted what? Where? 
I think you’re hung up on proper grammer because, well, you take pride in how you say things rather than what you say.
I didn’t bother correcting Uniqor for spelling “superficial” wrong because 1) I know what he meant, and 2) he’s smarter than most fuckers who can spell right.
I hear Einstein had trouble tying his shoe-laces…and difficulties with simpler maths.
You do understand how memory works don’t you, Bessy? The spellings for words which we learn are filed away in different sections of the brain than the meanings which we generate in our language. A person can “forget” how to spell a word but still understand its meaning. Granted, as Tentative mentioned, we hardly expect a physicist who cannot spell “atom” right to actually know what he’s talking about. We would hope that he’d get the spelling right before he bothered with using the term.
Still we know what he is explaining without the correct spelling. Problems only arise when a mispelled word resembles another word which could also be functioning in the context. Say the physcists name was Adam and his student wrote “Adam has electrons orbiting his nucleus.” Then let’s say that Adam walked in with little foam electrons on a string swirling around his body. Only in this context would the class be confused.
Starting as far back as 3rd grade and still today it really annoys me when people mix up “your” and “you’re”. I really think it just makes a person look unintelligent when they don’t follow simple grammar rules.
At the same time I realize that all these things are arbitrary and are only given as much meaning as we choose to give them. (there is no true Grammar God that I know of that makes grammar absolute truth).
I think what gets me is - if someone knows and you screw up an easy one - you look like an idiot. Not that I would ever say so, but - maybe I was so indoctrinated as a child whose mother cared only about appearances and not the real deal.
One ‘feels bad’
Feeling badly means you aren’t doing it quite right…
I remember having this discussion with the teacher in grade 12 english, many many revolutions around the sun ago.
11.27.06.1702
Hey, Doc S.!!! Where’ve you been man? You fade out of existence in late March and now you’ve returned… what’s the story? I hope it doesn’t have anything to do with the phallic member of a certain demonic image.
Chiming in: Hi Doc. Different game now. Maybe not so anti anti… Welcome back.
How’s that for crappy grammar?
Hi to All,
I have been told that English grammar is screwed up because the academicians initially tried to pattern English grammar after Latin grammer. Unfortunately, it is principally a Germanic language.
I suspect that the rules are pretty much a mess.